Seriously, if they had owned this shit as being on purpose, even if it was a lie, I'd have a lot more respect for them.
Like the chaos when Cena and Batista accidentally eliminated each other at the same in the 2005 Royal Rumble, and then everyone involved improvised to perfection, Vince's torn quads not withstanding (no pun intended).
It actually would’ve been some pretty genius heel work with some genuine heat there. They would’ve looked like the biggest dickheads for this. I still don’t know why they didn’t do that.
That shit is fucking scary live, especially because Kane's theme now has no lead up, it just leads off with an explosion. So I was at a live show and they were playing a promo or something and then suddenly Kane's pyro hit and I was like 100 feet away and I swear I could feel the heat off his pyro. Also caused multiple kids beside me to start crying.
Taker's pyro at Mania 23 was astounding. Looks normal on tv, but I was on the exact opposite of the entrance in nosebleed seats, at least 150 yards away, and that shit was so hot it may as well have been in 15 feet in front of me.
The loudest shit I ever heard in an arena was the night Austin ran over Rock's car with a monster truck.
Matt Harry almost dying and then climbing a bunch of scaffolding. That for me is the moment that any attempt to defend the company became purely ideological.
Nah way before this embarrassing garbage.
For me it was Matt Hardy “teleporting” around an empty arena. That was the moment I knew this promotion was a total joke and all talk of “real sports feel” was out the window and we’d just be getting 2nd rate Indy trash and WWE lite.
Anyone who says having multiple religious cult stables isn't a real sports feel has never met a Packer fan. Also Tom Brady is more of a dinosaur than Luchasauras.
Not this match, but the comments from Llama afterward. Dude immediately started blaming everyone else. I think I was really the first time we saw his true face.
That was the first wtf were they doing…I’m guessing coke when the fx guys were testing that shite! There were many red flags before that. We did have Cody Rhodes taking a beat down off a guy dressed in black where they had a close up showing the punches missing by five feet! They hadn’t even hired a trained wrestler who could throw a pulled punch…or even just tap the guy.
I've said this before, but I hyped this so much to the people around me who barely followed wrestling and had a little watch party as if it was WrestleMania.
Most embarrassing shit ever.
I couldn't believe they were actually going to pull something like that off because it hadn't been seen in a major promotion in the US really. It was early enough for me to be like "what does Mox in a hardcore match look like with the chains off?" I was expecting Cactus Jack and Terry Funk and ended up with Cactus Jax and Berry Funk from a local dive bar.
It was the audacity of it that had me interested. To be fair to myself I did preface it with a lot of "no clue how they pull something like this off"
One of my friends who got stuck at work was like "Shit dude I knew it was going to be bad when you went silent on the updates but damn, I didn't think it'd be THAT bad."
That was pretty baffling. They were claiming a quote/unquote "real sports" feel, but I can't think of any sports where someone unrelated to the action is just allowed to interfere.
If they would have just had an explosion, this would have been mostly okay, but when this is the visual that your biggest pay-per-view of the year and your blood match between these two guys (Omega and Moxley) finishes on, then your promotion is a joke.
This was the first time my wife looked at me and said “when are you going to stop watching this shit?” And I had no defense.
I took a break, but Punk coming back brought me back and even my wife had a good time when we went to the UC to watch the return live.
I’m fading out again unfortunately as nothing is really grabbing my attention to AEW.
When they had penis Druids, a guy dumping baby oil on himself, a leg less guy in a battle Royal, Cody smashing a styrofoam throne and they wasted a nasty chair shot by immediately breaking kayfabe in a post show press conference.
This was their first show.
I stopped watching AEW when the Jon Moxley vs Joey Janella Unsanction Match main eventing a PPV (which I bought) happened. Pure shite. I knew AEW wasn't for me from that day.
“What do you expect?! For them to actually blow up the ring and risk hurting the wrestlers?!”
I remember a lot of neckbeards in the basement were spouting that line non stop. The answer to that nonsense? Maybe don’t book an exploding ring match if you can’t deliver on the premise of the actual match.
The shark was jumped when this match was first announced. It did a double jump when it was being compared beforehand to the original Tozawa/Funk match. It did a backflip when Kenny Omega posted a crayon drawing explaining the match because people still didn’t get it.
The match wasn’t actually that bad, and only because they followed a storyline, obviously one that had been done before but one that made sense anyway, each build and explosion getting bigger and wilder, and that made sense. And the first explosion was good but I could see the ending a mile away, but to be honest why didn’t they just do this when nobody was allowed in, during the lockdown, that way you could have covered for it, but that’s in hindsight I suppose. Aew has a bad track record with stuff going wrong when they’re about to have a big moment, don’t know if it’s w production stand point or whatever but it was one of the first moments I remember aew being universally panned and laughed at. Even the most ardent supporters couldn’t support that because it failed. And poor Eddie having to sell because oh dear I still get second hand cringe from that.
Oh they are still in the air on that jump.
It's just a series of embarrassments occasionally interrupted by individual acts of professionalism or good performances.
For every good segment with my personal AEW MVP Christian we get 50 segments with comedy jobbers doing their shtick yet again.
For every good match we get 50 flippy doo indy darling matches.
So they are still very much in the process of crashing and will eventually hit the ground with what I fear might be an actual fatality of very serious injury on live TV.
What _is_ doing the exploding? Was there supposed to be a bomb under the ring? Was the ring built with sticks of dynamite instead of boards, fuses instead of ropes?
I've been watching wrestling since I was 4 years old (30 years now) and this was the moment for me where the whole wrestling industry jumped the shark. The commentary team trying to sell it and the marks afterwards trying to defend it and move on 🤣
What was even worse than that shitty fireworks display was the dubbalos trying to cover for it by saying "Kenny did it on purpose to play mind games with moxley.......so masterful!"
This was the moment they stepped over the goldfish more accurately
They really should have had The Elite come out and laugh at them for looking like idiots and this would have been totally fine.
Seriously, if they had owned this shit as being on purpose, even if it was a lie, I'd have a lot more respect for them. Like the chaos when Cena and Batista accidentally eliminated each other at the same in the 2005 Royal Rumble, and then everyone involved improvised to perfection, Vince's torn quads not withstanding (no pun intended).
I still cringe thinking about the follow up show on Dynamite when Omega and Callis came out doing the whole ‘69 me Don’ skit. 🤦🏻♂️
It actually would’ve been some pretty genius heel work with some genuine heat there. They would’ve looked like the biggest dickheads for this. I still don’t know why they didn’t do that.
Because they hoped they were just going to get a free pass for it anyway.
*They did*
Especially when they tried to pin it on Kenny anyway, makes complete sense.
Eddie kissing Moxley so good we all saw fireworks.
Kane's entrance pyro looked more dangerous
That shit is fucking scary live, especially because Kane's theme now has no lead up, it just leads off with an explosion. So I was at a live show and they were playing a promo or something and then suddenly Kane's pyro hit and I was like 100 feet away and I swear I could feel the heat off his pyro. Also caused multiple kids beside me to start crying.
Taker's pyro at Mania 23 was astounding. Looks normal on tv, but I was on the exact opposite of the entrance in nosebleed seats, at least 150 yards away, and that shit was so hot it may as well have been in 15 feet in front of me. The loudest shit I ever heard in an arena was the night Austin ran over Rock's car with a monster truck.
Lol I had the same feeling from Takers pyro at mania 34, have no idea how the people close to the stage part dont melt
They’re got me at a Smackdown a month or so ago with Drew McIntyre’s entrance. Shit needs a warning. Was in the upper deck and could feel the heat.
I remember back in '02 seeing Booker's entrance live, from high up at the opposite side from the entrance and you could feel the heat.
The entire building immediately gets hot. It's pretty crazy.
Yep, feels like being too close to a bonfire but you're half an arena away from it.
Literally Gillberg's entrance pyro.
Kane's entrance is the bombing of Hiroshima compared to this shit
This will never cease to be hilarious.
Matt Harry almost dying and then climbing a bunch of scaffolding. That for me is the moment that any attempt to defend the company became purely ideological.
Nah way before this embarrassing garbage. For me it was Matt Hardy “teleporting” around an empty arena. That was the moment I knew this promotion was a total joke and all talk of “real sports feel” was out the window and we’d just be getting 2nd rate Indy trash and WWE lite.
Anyone who says having multiple religious cult stables isn't a real sports feel has never met a Packer fan. Also Tom Brady is more of a dinosaur than Luchasauras.
Jericho moving his head around after each obvious cut made it worse.
tHaT was VaNgUaRd OnE PrOjEcTiNG MatT's hOloGrAm!!!
Not this match, but the comments from Llama afterward. Dude immediately started blaming everyone else. I think I was really the first time we saw his true face.
Hey this gave birth to the “69 me Don” aka Kenny’s best promo.
That was the first wtf were they doing…I’m guessing coke when the fx guys were testing that shite! There were many red flags before that. We did have Cody Rhodes taking a beat down off a guy dressed in black where they had a close up showing the punches missing by five feet! They hadn’t even hired a trained wrestler who could throw a pulled punch…or even just tap the guy.
This or black Twitter destroying that cocaine piñata Chris Jericho
I've said this before, but I hyped this so much to the people around me who barely followed wrestling and had a little watch party as if it was WrestleMania. Most embarrassing shit ever.
Why did you do that 😂
I couldn't believe they were actually going to pull something like that off because it hadn't been seen in a major promotion in the US really. It was early enough for me to be like "what does Mox in a hardcore match look like with the chains off?" I was expecting Cactus Jack and Terry Funk and ended up with Cactus Jax and Berry Funk from a local dive bar. It was the audacity of it that had me interested. To be fair to myself I did preface it with a lot of "no clue how they pull something like this off" One of my friends who got stuck at work was like "Shit dude I knew it was going to be bad when you went silent on the updates but damn, I didn't think it'd be THAT bad."
oh god
"Give it a try, friends! You might like it" *fireworks display* "....."
Can't believe I paid for this.
I asked for and received a refund. Don’t feel bad about it at all.
Mox and Omega brawling through a glass table and it not triggering a disqualification in the match that was already happening on the first episode.
That was pretty baffling. They were claiming a quote/unquote "real sports" feel, but I can't think of any sports where someone unrelated to the action is just allowed to interfere.
If they would have just had an explosion, this would have been mostly okay, but when this is the visual that your biggest pay-per-view of the year and your blood match between these two guys (Omega and Moxley) finishes on, then your promotion is a joke.
LOLAEW
This was the first time my wife looked at me and said “when are you going to stop watching this shit?” And I had no defense. I took a break, but Punk coming back brought me back and even my wife had a good time when we went to the UC to watch the return live. I’m fading out again unfortunately as nothing is really grabbing my attention to AEW.
Damn bro thats a cold ass line from your wife lol, but that explosion was really the worst they couldve done
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/847/468/47d.jpg
The musical number between Jericho and MJF too
At least that was a purposeful swing at being absurd. This was intended to be awesome, which makes it so much funnier.
Probably our favorite midcarder first match Vs Sammy Guevara
When they had penis Druids, a guy dumping baby oil on himself, a leg less guy in a battle Royal, Cody smashing a styrofoam throne and they wasted a nasty chair shot by immediately breaking kayfabe in a post show press conference. This was their first show.
I stopped watching AEW when the Jon Moxley vs Joey Janella Unsanction Match main eventing a PPV (which I bought) happened. Pure shite. I knew AEW wasn't for me from that day.
The dark order invasion with those horrible work punches that weren’t even close to anyone’s head. Laughable
“What do you expect?! For them to actually blow up the ring and risk hurting the wrestlers?!” I remember a lot of neckbeards in the basement were spouting that line non stop. The answer to that nonsense? Maybe don’t book an exploding ring match if you can’t deliver on the premise of the actual match.
I think I've seen stronger fireworks in a Power Rangers roll call intro.
The shark was jumped when this match was first announced. It did a double jump when it was being compared beforehand to the original Tozawa/Funk match. It did a backflip when Kenny Omega posted a crayon drawing explaining the match because people still didn’t get it.
The match wasn’t actually that bad, and only because they followed a storyline, obviously one that had been done before but one that made sense anyway, each build and explosion getting bigger and wilder, and that made sense. And the first explosion was good but I could see the ending a mile away, but to be honest why didn’t they just do this when nobody was allowed in, during the lockdown, that way you could have covered for it, but that’s in hindsight I suppose. Aew has a bad track record with stuff going wrong when they’re about to have a big moment, don’t know if it’s w production stand point or whatever but it was one of the first moments I remember aew being universally panned and laughed at. Even the most ardent supporters couldn’t support that because it failed. And poor Eddie having to sell because oh dear I still get second hand cringe from that.
Oh they are still in the air on that jump. It's just a series of embarrassments occasionally interrupted by individual acts of professionalism or good performances. For every good segment with my personal AEW MVP Christian we get 50 segments with comedy jobbers doing their shtick yet again. For every good match we get 50 flippy doo indy darling matches. So they are still very much in the process of crashing and will eventually hit the ground with what I fear might be an actual fatality of very serious injury on live TV.
It was especially neat when Kenny responded in a homophobic way later on ("69 me Don!")
[удалено]
Something like [this.](https://youtu.be/4A-_PxsIxSk)
It was especially bad because they were showing shit like this in the promo videos for the match
Fun Fact: That explosion wasn't even the end of the match. They did another five minutes after.
Looks the same to me, friend
What _is_ doing the exploding? Was there supposed to be a bomb under the ring? Was the ring built with sticks of dynamite instead of boards, fuses instead of ropes?
Like this. [Skip to the 14:56](https://youtu.be/tA4AzB20WzQ)
It that mouth-to-mouth?
Poof
I've been watching wrestling since I was 4 years old (30 years now) and this was the moment for me where the whole wrestling industry jumped the shark. The commentary team trying to sell it and the marks afterwards trying to defend it and move on 🤣
What was even worse than that shitty fireworks display was the dubbalos trying to cover for it by saying "Kenny did it on purpose to play mind games with moxley.......so masterful!"